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October 11th marks the International Day of the Girl Child, a day that aims to shed light on the needs and challenges girls face, as well as raising awareness of their rights as children and promoting their empowerment.

Today on October 11, Save the Children is celebrating the International Day of the Girl with millions of girls around the globe by sharing a story of a family who believed in supporting and empowering girls. Basmala*, twelve, and Habiba*, fifteen, are two sisters who joined Save the Children’s Speak Up campaign in Egypt, which aims to combat sexual harassment of adolescent girls in urban settings. They participated in skills building sessions on this issue which affects many girls in Egypt, and are involved in one of the campaign’s youth-led initiatives, where adolescents and youth design and lead actions to promote access to protections on sexual harassment and to raise awareness of reporting mechanisms for adolescent girls.

To mark World Mental Health Day on October 10th, Save the Children is supporting WHO’s awareness raising campaign about depression, with the theme #LetsTalk. Children often do go through periods of sadness, and children experiencing depression require more attention. To commemorate this day, Save the Children is emphasizing the importance of seeking help.

Save the Children commemorates World Refugee Day on the 20th of June by sharing success story for one of the refugees who had a lot of challenges but were able to face them. Nermine* is #NotJustARefugee, through Save the Children’s interventions and activities, she was able to start a new beginning in Egypt.

To commemorate six years of the Syria crisis, Save the Children organised a workshop for youth in Greater Cairo, entitled “6 years of story-telling”.